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  2. Dramatic monologue - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry: The single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment

  3. Monologue - Wikipedia

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    Audition monologues demonstrate an actor's ability to prepare a piece and deliver a performance. [13] These pieces are usually limited to two minutes or less and are often paired with a contrasting monologue: comic and dramatic; classical and contemporary. The choice of monologues for an audition [14] often depends on the play or role.

  4. All the world's a stage - Wikipedia

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    "All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man .

  5. The 20 Best "Saturday Night Live" Monologues, Ranked

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    His 2019 monologue, where he made his return after 35 years of absence, was filled with comedic genius (and was interrupted by comedic legends Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, and Dave Chappelle).

  6. The Manic Monologues - Wikipedia

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    The Manic Monologues premiered during Mental Health Awareness Month in 2019 at Stanford University. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 17 ] [ 19 ] [ 27 ] The play has shown in Des Moines, Iowa , [ 6 ] [ 11 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] where David Felton of BroadwayWorld dubbed it "A production I won't soon forget," [ 11 ] and at the University of California, Los Angeles .

  7. Tragicomedy - Wikipedia

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    Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. [1]

  8. Solo performance - Wikipedia

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    Solo performance enjoyed an unprecedented artistic and commercial vogue in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century (John S. Gentile Calls it the golden age of platform performance). Literary historians often associate the Victorian period with the highest development of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form. There ...

  9. Soldiering On - Wikipedia

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    "Soldiering On" is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and GCSE English syllabus. [1]